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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity [syn: prickly heat, heat rash, miliaria]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, feminine of miliarius Date: 1807 an inflammatory disorder of the skin that is characterized by redness, eruptions (as of vesicles), and burning or itching due to blockage of sweat gland ducts; especially prickly heat • miliarial adjective

Britannica Concise

Inflammatory skin disorder, with multiple small sites at sweat pores. Blockage of ducts causes sweat to escape into various levels of the skin and produce different inflammatory reactions. The most common type, known as prickly heat, results when sweat escapes into the epidermis. Pinhead blisters or pimplelike bumps occur mostly on the trunk and limbs and cause itching and burning. It mainly affects infants in tropical climates. See also perspiration, sweat gland.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Miliaria Mil`i*a"ri*a, n. [NL. See Miliary.] (Med.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.